Cooking-stove



2 Sheet-Sheet 1.-

(No Model.)

J. A. HORTON.

0001mm STOVE.

Patented Feb. 7. 1882.

WITNESSES (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

J-. A. HORTON.

COOKING STOVE.

No. 253,206. Patented Feb. 7,1882.

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" ..N1TE D STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

JAMES A. HORTON, OF NEW CASTLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

COOKING-STOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 253,206, dated February 7, 1882.

Application filed November 22, 1881.

to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention relates to an improvement in cookingstoves; and it consists in combining with the flues of the stove gates, valves, scrapers, and receiving-pan, arranged with relation to each other so that the refuse of combustion which accumulates in the outer flues may be drawn forward and collected in a pan in the center flue, which pan may subsequently be removed for the purpose of disposing of the refuse of combustion, all of which will more fully and at large appear.

vTo enable others skilled in the art with which my invention is most nearly connected to make and use it, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

In the accompanying drawings, which form part of my specification, Figure 1 represents a horizontal sectional view or plan of my improvement in stoves. Fig; 2 is a longitudinal section of the same at line 00 m of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is alongitudinal section of the same at line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. at is a transverse section of the same at line 2 z of Fig. 1.

Reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification, A B represent the outside fines, and G the center flue, which communicate with the descending flues E F and ascending flue G. In the fines A B are placed scrapers h 1 the handles j of which extend through the length of the flue to the front part of the stove. The flue-plates k, at their front ends, are each provided with a valve, Z, for forming'a communication between the outside flues, A B, and the center flue, G, which valves are operated by the handles m.

(No model.)

The apron a and pan 0 and the gates 19 qare of ordinary construction.

The operation of my improvement is as follows: Either or both of the valves Z may be raised, so as to cut off communication between 1 the heat may be regulated so as to heat the oven uniformly. This uneven distrihu tion of the heat is frequently occasioned by a greater deposit of the refuse of combustion in one of the outside flues than in the other. When it is desirable to clean the outside fines of the refuse of combustion the valves 1 are lowered, as indicated at r. The operator then, by means of the handle j, draws forward the scrapers s, which will draw forward the refuse of combustion, and'by turning the valve or valves 1 upward in the position shown in Fig. 4 will deposit the refuse of combustion in the pan t. The operator then replaces the scrapers, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and raises the valves 1, so as to cut off communication between the outside fines, A B, and the center flue, 0. He then removes the ash-pan 0 and the gates 19 and q, and withdraws the pan t and its contentsout of the flue (J, for the purpose of emptying it, after which it is replaced in said fine, and the gates 19 and q and pan 0 are replaced in position.

- Having thus described my improvement, what I claim is- The combination, with the central flue, O, and side flues, A B, communicating therewith,

of the scrapers 8, arranged in said side fines,

and the pivoted valves l, substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and described.

O. W. DUNLAP, JOHN W. BEATY. 

